An LBC native, Mike Guardabascio has been covering Long Beach sports professionally for 13 years, with his work published in dozens of Southern California magazines and newspapers. He's won numerous awards for his writing as well as the CIF Southern Section’s Champion For Character Award, and is the author of three books about Long Beach history.
We’ll have live updates from today’s CIF-SS soccer playoff bracket release at 10am and basketball playoff bracket release at 12pm; later today we’ll have full stories breaking down the playoff path for the local teams. BOYS SOCCER BRACKET: https://cifss.org/brackets/2024-2025-boys-soccer/ GIRLS SOCCER BRACKET: https://cifss.org/brackets/2024-2025-girls-soccer/ BOYS BASKETBALL BRACKET: https://cifss.org/brackets/2025-boys-basketball/ GIRLS BASKETBALL BRACKET: https://cifss.org/brackets/2025-girls-basketball/ CLICK HERE if you […]
With the new playoff format last year, the number question we got at every practice we went to was about playoff divisions. With that in mind we’re going to track where teams stand each week in the CalPreps rankings, which are used to determine the CIF Southern Section’s playoff divisions at the end of the […]